Annual Register, 137. köideEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1896 |
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... London County Council Election - The Irish Land Bill— Extradition of Jabez Balfour - The Cost of Cyprus - Navy Estimates - Army Estimates - Speaker's Retirement Announced - Second Reading of the Welsh Church Bill - Lord Rosebery's ...
... London County Council Election - The Irish Land Bill— Extradition of Jabez Balfour - The Cost of Cyprus - Navy Estimates - Army Estimates - Speaker's Retirement Announced - Second Reading of the Welsh Church Bill - Lord Rosebery's ...
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... London County Council he took the first opportunity after the re - assembling of that body ( Jan. 15 ) to declare that London was pleased that its representatives , " instead of listening to cranks and Utopian schemes put forward by ...
... London County Council he took the first opportunity after the re - assembling of that body ( Jan. 15 ) to declare that London was pleased that its representatives , " instead of listening to cranks and Utopian schemes put forward by ...
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... London Liberals had certain specific proposals which they wished to place before the committee , and were anxious that these should not in any way be excluded by the terms of the reference . London , it was maintained , ought to possess ...
... London Liberals had certain specific proposals which they wished to place before the committee , and were anxious that these should not in any way be excluded by the terms of the reference . London , it was maintained , ought to possess ...
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... London County Council were looked forward to with great interest as tending to throw some light upon the Parliamentary elections , which were thought likely to follow at no considerable interval . Leaders of both parties , to whom the ...
... London County Council were looked forward to with great interest as tending to throw some light upon the Parliamentary elections , which were thought likely to follow at no considerable interval . Leaders of both parties , to whom the ...
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... London Municipal Society , which supported the Moderates , desired it to be known that the idea of splitting up London into ten municipalities entered into their policy . They desired that the London County Council should have ...
... London Municipal Society , which supported the Moderates , desired it to be known that the idea of splitting up London into ten municipalities entered into their policy . They desired that the London County Council should have ...
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Page 377 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our Southern Brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition, in any form, with indifference.
Page 196 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power, as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Page 332 - The closing of the Indian mints to the free coinage of silver...
Page 380 - ... there is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Page 67 - The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. By TA ARCHER and CL KINGSFORD.
Page 378 - That distance and three thousand miles of intervening ocean make any permanent political union between a European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient will hardly be denied.
Page 380 - In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow. I am nevertheless firm in my conviction that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great Englishspeaking peoples of the world as being otherwise than friendly competitors in the onward march of civilization...
Page 375 - Virginia, who had been Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the House of Representatives. The first session of the fifty-fourth Congress began Monday, December 2.
Page 272 - ... on the Aksu River, if that locality is found not to be north of the latitude of Lake Victoria, and from thence it shall be prolonged in an easterly direction so as to meet the Chinese frontier. If it should be found that Kizil Rabat is situated to the north of the latitude of Lake Victoria, the line of demarcation shall be drawn to the nearest convenient point on the Aksu River south of that latitude, and from thence prolonged as aforesaid.
Page 378 - ... international law. They are not prepared to admit that the interests of the United States are necessarily concerned in every frontier dispute which may arise between any two of the States who possess dominion in the Western hemisphere ; and still less can they accept the doctrine that the United States are entitled to claim that the process of arbitration shall be applied to any demand for the surrender of territory which one of those States may make against another.